Cage the Elephants latest single, 'Cigarette Daydreams', is our Track of the Week for this week. Taken from their third studio album, 'Melophobia', the track has been recieving a lot of love of late, hence the reason why the Kentuckians decided to release it as a single.
Track 10 of 10 on 'Melophobia', 'Cigarette Daydreams' is perfectly placed.
Following the engineered racket of 'Teeth' on track 9 as well as the prior exuberancy exerted by Matt Schultz and the rest of Cage the Elephant on their third studio album, a slow and tranquil yet upbeat and powerful 3 minutes and 28 seconds of pure brilliance. Whilst listening you feel as though lead singer Matt is re-telling of his teenage years as he screams passionately about all of his pain yet to a jolly and upbeat tune, portraying the happy and sad times he had during his adolesence. The soothing sound of a six string acoustic is met with the upbeat bang of drums as 'Cigarette Daydreams' brilliance ever increases in magnitude, following this the track swiftly drops into a 1 string, close mic, overtoned chorus that soon powerfully and passionately re-develops before abruptly drawing to a close.
'Cigarette Daydreams' is a statement of intent from Matt Schultz and co as they aim to prove to critics that they're not all just noise.
RIFFED's Rating: 9/10
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Posted by Charlie Ireland.
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